1856 in art
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Events
- Édouard Manet opens his own studio
- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ('Lewis Carroll') takes up photography
- Owen Jones publishes The Grammar of Ornament, illustrated in chromolithography
- The National Portrait Gallery, London opens
Awards
- Austrian Imperial Prize for Sculpture - Joseph Boehm
Works
- Ivan Aivazovsky - A Strong Wind
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau - La Danse (approximate date)
- Ford Madox Brown - Take your Son, Sir! (unfinished)
- Philip Hermogenes Calderon - Broken Vows
- Samuel Colman - Meadows and Wildflowers at Conway
- William Powell Frith - Many Happy Returns of the Day
- Hiroshige - Sudden Shower at the Atake Bridge
- Arthur Hughes - April Love
- William Holman Hunt - The Scapegoat (large version)
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
- Sir Edwin Landseer - Saved
- Baron Carlo Marochetti - Richard Coeur de Lion (statue)
- John Everett Millais
- Jean-François Millet - Shepherdess Seated on a Rock
- Eugene von Guerard - View of Geelong
- Henry Wallis - The Death of Chatterton
Births
- January 7 - Charles Harold Davis, painter (died 1933)
- January 8 - Elizabeth Taylor, painter (died 1932)
- January 12 - John Singer Sargent, painter (died 1925)
- March 8 - Colin Campbell Cooper, painter (died 1937)
- March 9 - Tom Roberts, painter (died 1931)
- March 20 - John Lavery, Irish painter (died 1941)
- May 20 - Henri-Edmond Cross, painter (died 1910)
- October 28 - Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, portrait and genre painter (died 1942)
- November 6 - Jefferson David Chalfant, painter (died 1931)
- Undated - Harry Fidler, painter (died 1935)
Deaths
- January 4 - Pierre Jean David, sculptor and engraver ("David d'Angers") (born 1788)
- April 5 - František Horčička, Czech history and portrait painter (born 1776)
- April 27 - Louis Joseph César Ducornet, painter (used his feet) (born 1806)
- July 4 - István Ferenczy, Hungarian sculptor (born 1792)
- July 19 - Henry Aston Barker, landscape and panorama painter (born 1774)
- July 22 - Thomas Doughty, landscape painter (born 1793)
- September 1 - Sir Richard Westmacott, sculptor (born 1775)
- October - Rafael Tejeo, Spanish Neoclassical painter (born c.1800)
- October 8 - Théodore Chassériau, painter (born 1819)
- October 28 - Johann Peter Krafft, German-Austrian painter (born 1780)
- November 4 - Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (born 1797)
- November 6 - Cephas Thompson, portrait painter (born 1775)
- November 13 - Ludwig Buchhorn, German painter and engraver (born 1770)
- November 21 - Charles de Steuben, French painter (born 1788)
- November 23 - Thomas Seddon, landscape painter (born 1821)
- date unknown
- Pieter Godfried Bertichen, Dutch painter and lithographer (born 1796)
- Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Duchesne, French painter and miniaturist (born 1770)
- Kim Jeonghui, Korean calligrapher and artist (born 1786)
- Elisabeth Charlotta Karsten - Swedish and Russian painter (born 1789)
- Frederick Nash, English painter and draughtsman (born 1782)
- Naitō Toyomasa, Japanese sculptor of netsuke from Tamba Province (born 1773)
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